Susan Sontag Quotes - Page 6

• One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

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  People, Society, Liberty

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.117, Penguin UK

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• Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

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  Regret, Destiny, Men

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• Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

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  Sueño, Recuerdos, Libro

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• Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

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  Two, Creative, Culture

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan

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• I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

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  Waiting, Solitude, Want

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.305, Macmillan

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• A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.

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  Fotografía

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• Ningún "nosotros" debe darse por sentado cuando el sujeto contempla el dolor ajeno.

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  Dolor, Tomado, Gente

  Susan Sontag (2013). "Regarding the Pain of Others", p.7, Macmillan.

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• Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

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  World, Has Beens, Ifs

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• I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.

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  Truth, Lying, Party

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.317, Macmillan

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• I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

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  Dream, Follow Your Dreams

  Christine Allison, Susan Sontag (1978). “The benefactor: a novel”, Delta

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• Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

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  Beautiful, Appreciation, Interesting

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context in which it is seen: thus Smith's Minamata photographs will seem different on a contact sheet, in a gallery, in a political demonstration, in a police file, in a photographic magazine, in a book, on a living-room wall. Each o these situations suggest a different use for the photographs but none can secure their meaning.

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  Wall, Book, Emotional

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.94, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• El miedo a la sexualidad es el nuevo registro, patrocinado por la enfermedad, del universo del miedo en el que ahora vive todo el mundo.

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  Fear, Disease, Sexuality

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• In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

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  Art, Needs, Hermeneutics

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.

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  Reality, Citizens, Pollution

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Knowing a great deal about what is in the world art, catastrophe, the beauties of nature through photographic images, people are frequently disappointed, surprised, unmoved when the see the real thing. For photographic images tend to subtract feeling from something we experience at first hand and the feelings they do arouse are, largely, not those we have in real life. Often something disturbs us more in photographed form than it does when we actually experience it.

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  Art, Real, Knowing

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.146, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

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  Mind, Body, Crowds

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• taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

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  Ideas, People, Taste

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• Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

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  Silence, Speech, Form

  Susan Sontag (1983). "A Susan Sontag reader", Vintage

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• Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

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  Guilt, Innocence, Logic

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

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  Jobs, Important, Savages

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• Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

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  Dream, Witty, World

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

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  People, Mad, This Society

  Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.340, Macmillan

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• El fotógrafo es una versión armada del caminante solitario que reconoce, acecha, recorre el infierno urbano, el paseante voyeur que descubre la ciudad como un paisaje de extremos voluptuosos. Adepto al placer de mirar, conocedor de la empatía, el flâneur encuentra el mundo "pintoresco".

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  Cities, Empathy, Joy

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.50, Macmillan

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• La raza blanca es el cáncer de la historia de la humanidad.

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  Cáncer, Raza, Blanco

  "What's Happening in America" (1966)

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